Early color footage (1922 kodachrome film test)

I cam across this video of a 1922 color footage filmed by Kodak. This video was quite amazing to me. That is why i decided to share it with you all. I get goosebumps on thinking whether these people are still alive?

This is amazing. It's so weird seeing the women of this period in motion in color. Makes them seem closer to today somehow. I totally feel for the the third girl, with the greens dress and the hat. Adorable. Probably way to old for or dead at this point, but adorable. Last one kinda shocked me a bit since she looks a lot like my ex, facial mannerisms and all.

It's interesting how much "for granted" we take all of the technology we have today especially when it comes to capturing images and sound. Back when these young women were filmed in color for one of the first times it probably wasn't even conceivable to professionals in the field the things we can do today with image capturing. Ultra-High Resolution, 3D, deep colors, hell even taking pictures of things that are invisible to the naked eye on Earth but are galaxies millions of lightyears away. The Hubble Deep Field image would probably blow the minds of those working with images back then.

This image I always found neat too:

Said to be the first image of a person captured on camera. (On the street corner.) Taking at a time when cameras were just becoming a thing and had very long exposure times. Such long exposure times anything moving in the field of vision to the camera was invisible. The people/person in the corner is likely getting his shoes shined so just happened to be standing still long enough for the camera to capture him. In "reality" there would've been a good deal of pedestrian and cart traffic on the road and sidewalk. The picture is from 1838.

It truly is amazing to see things like this in colour. It kind of gives you a new dimension in looking at things. Reminds me of the old WWII photos that were taken in colour. Seeing these truly gives me a pause for reflection.

I wonder if these are anything like the 2-strip technicolor they tried in the 30's, though that stuff was known to disintegrate.

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Actually, experimental 2-color Technicolor existed as early as 1916. Full 3-strip Technicolor was first used in the 1933 Disney cartoon Flowers and Trees. The first live-action feature film in full Technicolor was Becky Sharp in 1935.

As for "disintegrating," all nitrate film stock, whether color or black and white, starts to decompose after a few decades.